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Ground Zero Mosque Imam: No, This Isn’t a Mosque, It’s an Islamic YMCA
Weasel Zippers ^ | August 12, 2010 | ZIP

Posted on 08/14/2010 11:58:29 AM PDT by RobinMasters

NEW YORK - When Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf decided to build a Muslim cultural center in lower Manhattan, the model he chose couldn’t have been more mainstream American — the Young Men’s Christian Association chapters found in cities across the United States.

The institution he had in mind was the 92nd Street Y, a Jewish adaptation of the YMCA concept that is one of New York’s leading addresses for residents of all religions or none to visit for public lectures, debates, concerts or educational courses.

But Imam Rauf’s project is better known here now as the “Ground Zero mosque,” after the term for the World Trade Center site. Families of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and conservative politicians have mounted an emotional campaign to block it, claiming that locating it only two blocks north of the site was a provocation.

“We repeatedly say we are neither a mosque nor within Ground Zero, but they just shout back ‘Ground Zero mosque,’ ‘Ground Zero mosque,’” Imam Rauf, 61, told Reuters in an interview. The planned building will have a prayer room for Muslims, he said, but it would only be a small part of the 13-story complex.

(Excerpt) Read more at weaselzippers.us ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: muslim; obamajihad; obamamosque; rop
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1 posted on 08/14/2010 11:58:29 AM PDT by RobinMasters
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To: RobinMasters

Stormtrooper: Let me see your identification.
Obi-Wan: [with a small wave of his hand] You don’t need to see his identification.
Stormtrooper: We don’t need to see his identification.
Obi-Wan: These aren’t the droids you’re looking for.
Stormtrooper: These aren’t the droids we’re looking for.
Obi-Wan: He can go about his business.
Stormtrooper: You can go about your business.
Obi-Wan: Move along.
Stormtrooper: Move along... move along.


2 posted on 08/14/2010 12:00:47 PM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: RobinMasters

Where are The Village People?


3 posted on 08/14/2010 12:02:57 PM PDT by aposiopetic
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To: RobinMasters
OSTC

On Site Training Camp

4 posted on 08/14/2010 12:04:01 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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No, This Isn’t a Mosque, It’s an Islamic YMCA
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Except as a woman a member of the YMCA I can swim in the pool and use the gym with men...

In the “Islamic YMCA” I cant...

Cue the angry Molly Yards...


5 posted on 08/14/2010 12:07:04 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: aposiopetic
Where are The Village People?

Young man! Blow yourself...up today
I said, "Young Man--we will show you the way"

6 posted on 08/14/2010 12:15:32 PM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (If Hayek were still alive, he'd be turning over in his grave.)
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To: RobinMasters

If it is just like the Y then they will have to open it up for membership to everyone.

Right....?


7 posted on 08/14/2010 12:16:01 PM PDT by OpusatFR
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To: RobinMasters

Iman Rauf seems to have difficulty understanding the following:
1. Islam is antithetical to America.
2. Islam is irreconcilable with America.

America is becoming aware of this and therefore wants absolutely nothing to do with anything Islamic.

Or, I should add, any Muslims.


8 posted on 08/14/2010 12:21:36 PM PDT by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is essential to examine principles,)
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To: GladesGuru
Or, I should add, any Muslims.

And that includes the current occupent of the White House.

9 posted on 08/14/2010 12:24:41 PM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast
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Ground Zero Mosque Imam: No, This Isn’t a Mosque, It’s an Islamic YMCA

Oh, so the Village People will be welcome?

10 posted on 08/14/2010 12:25:52 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

lol!


11 posted on 08/14/2010 12:29:16 PM PDT by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
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To: RobinMasters

Dear Imam: When there’s a Christian YMCA in Mecca, you can have yours in New York.


12 posted on 08/14/2010 12:33:16 PM PDT by Keith in Iowa (Iowa floods, Obama vacations. Moochelle Obama, please pass the cake.)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

LOL! You’re on to something-keep writing!;)


13 posted on 08/14/2010 12:37:46 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

Hilarious !


14 posted on 08/14/2010 12:39:10 PM PDT by onona (dbada)
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To: RobinMasters
Mooslims are just like democrats. They change what they call something and expect everyone to then believe it's something different.

The joint they propose will have everything a mosque has including the call to prayer (which Barry says he thinks is beautiful) ringing across the 9/11 site five times a day as a means to insult everyone and show Mooslims that they not only destroyed the WTC but conquered the site as well.

15 posted on 08/14/2010 12:47:45 PM PDT by Rashputin (Obama is already insane and sequestered on golf courses so you won't know it)
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No, not a mosque; rather aan islamic terrorist armory and training center.


16 posted on 08/14/2010 1:13:26 PM PDT by Lion Den Dan
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To: RobinMasters

http://www.islamicfinder.org/getitWorld.php?id=102115&lang=english


17 posted on 08/14/2010 1:15:14 PM PDT by thecodont
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Phew, well, glad that's over.

Cuz now we know they won't be hatching up plots, recruiting and consolidating power from just a silly, little...er giant...rec center. They are going to be lifting weights, playing air hockey and swimming. Nothing to worry about.

18 posted on 08/14/2010 1:15:57 PM PDT by riri
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In Arabic ‘’Mosque’’ referers to a place to store weapons. Hasn’t anybody learned anything yet?


19 posted on 08/14/2010 1:17:40 PM PDT by Waco (From Seward to Sarah)
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Yet another lie. YMCA’s are local. This one is to be placed far from where the majority of Musims in NYC live which is Brooklyn.


20 posted on 08/14/2010 1:21:21 PM PDT by bronxville
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